Greetings,
I don't know about anyone else, but I have personally noted that high salt
consumption while eating an actual paleo diet is rather hard to even
achieve.  I can no longer even tolerate the levels of salt used in most
"normal" foods and rarely bother to salt things here at home.

While I seem to have no bad effect from using salt ( in relation to my blood
pressure ) and can use as much as I like, I would have to say that I "no
longer like".   :-)   Perhaps that is a strong indicator towards the truth
about salt?  Use what your body needs?  Thoughts, comments?

Jim Cales - [log in to unmask] - ICQ UIN 1492607
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Hilary McClure" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:49 AM
Subject: Salt


> I've noticed a variety of attitudes towards salt consumption on the
> list. It seems to be an area of controversy among the "experts". In
> Mercola's diet recommendations he says low sodium diets cause problems
> for some people and recommends sea salt, but doesn't offer any
> references. Enig and Fallon promote a pretty high salt intake, including
> recommending such high sodium foods as brined pickles and sauerkraut.
> But many others, including Loren Cordain, strongly advise against excess
> sodium intake and claim that in the paleolithic, sodium intake was a
> small fraction of potassium intake. Here are links to a series of three
> articles on Na/K that point to sodium's involvement in a host of health
> problems (not just high blood pressure), and then a clip from a posting
> to the paleodiet list by Cordain concerning salt and cancer (not just
> stomach cancer, but maybe all cancers).
>
> Sodium-potassium articles:
> <http://www.nutritionfocus.com/nutrition_library/potassium_sodium.html>
>
<http://www.nutritionfocus.com/nutrition_library/Potassium%20_to%20_Sodium_R
atio.html>
> <http://www.nutritionfocus.com/images/potassiumto.htm>
>
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> PALEODIET archives -- May 1998 (#32)
>
>  Date:         Mon, 11 May 1998 10:31:00 -0600
>  Reply-To:     Paleolithic Diet Symposium List
> <[log in to unmask]>
>  Sender:       Paleolithic Diet Symposium List
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>  From:         Loren Cordain <[log in to unmask]>
>  Subject:      Re: Sodium and cancer
>
>         In a previous post, Staffan and Dean noted that there is strong
> experimental as well as epidemiological evidence to incriminate dietary
> salt (actually sodium) in the etiology of stomach cancer.   Less well
> appreciated is the evidence to suggest that dietary sodium may act as a
> universal promoter of  multiple cancers separate from the
> gastrointestinal tract. Although the notion that dietary sodium may
> influence the development of a wide variety of cancers may at first seem
> to be unfounded, there is sufficient data from a number of lines of
> evidence to point to this connection. There is a well established link
> between dietary sodium and hypertension.  Therefore, if sodium is
> somehow related to the promotion of cancer, there should be an
> epidemiological relationship between hypertension and cancer mortality.
> And indeed there is, although the information is relatively obscure and
> unrecognized.  I have included 4 references (1,2,3,4) which show this
> link...